Tag Soup or a Spiker???????
12-12-2008, 09:52 AM
#31
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RE: Tag Soup or a Spiker???????
So you should kill something you don't want to (that won't make you happy)......if you want to be recognized by your peers as a "hunter"??
12-12-2008, 09:59 AM
#33
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RE: Tag Soup or a Spiker???????
ORIGINAL: Dopler
Let the spiker go and shoot a doe instead. This question is nota reasonable question as if you wanted venison,the hunter had months to shoot a doeprior to this day.
Let the spiker go and shoot a doe instead. This question is nota reasonable question as if you wanted venison,the hunter had months to shoot a doeprior to this day.
ORIGINAL: PreacherTony
Last hunt of the year .....you have not put any venison in the freezer and noone has given you any ....... the last 15 minutes of your season, a fat spiker shows up by himself and stops 18 yards away, broadside ...... do you take him or end the season with zero venison?
I know that some of you guys hunt where doe abound and it's almost impossible for you to comprehend the question .... but if ya wanna play, you have to put yourself in the situation ......not change it
Last hunt of the year .....you have not put any venison in the freezer and noone has given you any ....... the last 15 minutes of your season, a fat spiker shows up by himself and stops 18 yards away, broadside ...... do you take him or end the season with zero venison?
I know that some of you guys hunt where doe abound and it's almost impossible for you to comprehend the question .... but if ya wanna play, you have to put yourself in the situation ......not change it
12-12-2008, 10:01 AM
#34
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RE: Tag Soup or a Spiker???????
ORIGINAL: Dopler
Let the spiker go and shoot a doe instead.
Let the spiker go and shoot a doe instead.
ORIGINAL: Dopler
This question is nota reasonable question as if you wanted venison,the hunter had months to shoot a doeprior to this day.
This question is nota reasonable question as if you wanted venison,the hunter had months to shoot a doeprior to this day.
12-12-2008, 10:02 AM
#37
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RE: Tag Soup or a Spiker???????
Sometimes our DNR laws limits our options and they are not always best for the herd. For example this year I shot a spike bull elk to fill the freezer .... when I shot him he had 3 or 4 cows with him. I would have shot a cow in a second over that spike if it wasnt for our screwed up laws that make it bulls only .. But what sells more tags... BULLS only or COWS only.. at least make it either sex for goodness sakes...and its kindoffunny when we have 30-40 cows to bulls in many areas.. dont ya think?
12-12-2008, 10:04 AM
#38
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RE: Tag Soup or a Spiker???????
ORIGINAL: LittleChief
Not possible. In this situation, it's the last few minutes of the last hunt of the season.
Sure it's reasonable. There are a lot of hunters out there that go all season without getting ANY deer.
ORIGINAL: Dopler
Let the spiker go and shoot a doe instead.
Let the spiker go and shoot a doe instead.
ORIGINAL: Dopler
This question is nota reasonable question as if you wanted venison,the hunter had months to shoot a doeprior to this day.
This question is nota reasonable question as if you wanted venison,the hunter had months to shoot a doeprior to this day.
12-12-2008, 10:08 AM
#39
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RE: Tag Soup or a Spiker???????
ORIGINAL: shed33
Sometimes our DNR laws limits our options and they are not always best for the herd. For example this year I shot a spike bull elk to fill the freezer .... when I shot him he had 3 or 4 cows with him. I would have shot a cow in a second over that spike if it wasnt for our screwed up laws that make it bulls only .. But what sells more tags... BULLS only or COWS only.. at least make it either sex for goodness sakes...and its kindoffunny when we have 30-40 cows to bulls in many areas.. dont ya think?
Sometimes our DNR laws limits our options and they are not always best for the herd. For example this year I shot a spike bull elk to fill the freezer .... when I shot him he had 3 or 4 cows with him. I would have shot a cow in a second over that spike if it wasnt for our screwed up laws that make it bulls only .. But what sells more tags... BULLS only or COWS only.. at least make it either sex for goodness sakes...and its kindoffunny when we have 30-40 cows to bulls in many areas.. dont ya think?
12-12-2008, 10:14 AM
#40
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RE: Tag Soup or a Spiker???????
If you want venison then yes. If you want antlers, no. No question about it. I like big bucks and try to do my part, but I just wonder after some comments made, howsomepeople can make comments that low from a horse that high. No wrong answer, but no reason to think it's not a reasonable question. There are tons and tons and tons and tons of people that may hunt all year and only see a couple deer and then finally get a shot at a spike at the end of season, or better yet, a button head. It just tickles some people to death to take a deer of any sort, gun bow, throwing rocks, however. Im sure most that made the comments held out for large bucks or took only does in the first year or two, with the exception of a few elitest that start out with big bucks and does only in mind, which is fine, but rare, and often wonder how the mind works for the few that start out that way, not to get excited at the first couple shot opportunities on any given deer. I know Id probably have bigger deer on my property if I started that way, but probably would have missed out on several good memories, good meals and BBQs as well that I wouldnt trade for a large deer.